Peer evaluation process

Vertice Universitario has a double-blind arbitration system for the review of submitted documents. This provides the necessary impartiality to achieve an objective evaluation of the contributions by the reviewers.

All submitted works will be subject to double anonymous arbitration. Communicating to the author(s) the opinion and observations received for their corresponding attention,for which they have 3 weeks to resend the revised version based on the following:

INSTRUCTIONS TO RESPOND TO THE EVALUATION CARRIED OUT BY THE REVIEWERS OF THE ARTICLE

Responses to the evaluation or changes requested by the reviewers must be responded to through a response letter for each reviewer.

It is necessary to identify each comment or question made by each reviewer.

The authors must provide a response or clarification, which must be highlighted below each comment, indicating the page, paragraph and line where what was stated has been incorporated or modified. In addition, the manuscript must be attached with the reviewers' corrections or suggestions incorporated. These changes must be highlighted in a different color or in track changes so that the reviewer can identify the incorporated changes.

EXAMPLE In this document, a response is provided to Reviewer A of the manuscript “…”

Reviewer comment A: You should incorporate more information into the introduction...

Response: We have incorporated as suggested more background into the introduction, page 1, paragraph 2, line 1-11. INTRODUCTION In recent years throughout the world the phenomenon of..... (Santamouris et al. 2015, Bustamante et al. 2011, Kolokotroni et al. 2006)...